Check lock for mine gars



Filed March 14, 1928 INVINTOI ,Beserzzbl Patented July 9, 1929.

UNITED STATES MATIJA BESHENICH, OF MOLLENOUR, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHECK LOCK FOR MINE GARS.

Application filed March 14, 1928.

This invention relates to means for fastening a miners tag or check to a car, the general object of the invention being to provide simple means for so fastening the tag or check to the car that it will be impossible for any one to remove the check and replace it by another one, thus preventing a dishonest miner from substituting his check for the check of the miner who has filled the car.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing my invention in detail, rcfercnce will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a view of portion of a car, sh0wing the invention in use.

Figure 2 is a section on line 22 of F ig ure 1.

Figure 3 is an enlarged side elevation, showing a portion of the car with the invention in use.

Figure I is a section 011 line -l4t of Figure Figure 5 is a view showing a portion of the inner side of a car, with the invention in use.

Figure 6 is a view of a tool used for removing the check from the car.

In carrying out my invention, I form an opening 1 in one side of the car A to receive a wire 2, this wire being looped through the aperture in the check or tag 13 and then passed through the opening and twisted about a wedge-shaped strip 3 which is loosely connected with the inner side of the car by a staple a passing through a hole 5 in the large Serial No. 261,570.

end of the strip. The hole in the car is made quite a distance from the top edge thereof so that after the check or tag has been fastened to the strip 3 by the wire and the car filled, the strip, with the wire looped around the same, is covered by the coal in the car and thus it will be impossible for any one to remove the check and substitute another check for it. This will prevent a dishonest miner from substituting his own check for the check of the miner who has filled the car.

The check is firmly held in place and there is no danger of it becoming detached from the ear. After the car arrives at the dumping point, the timekeeper or other person checking up the cars would run a tool, such as that shown at 6 in Figure 6, through the outer loop portion of the wire to break the wire at this point so that he can remove the check from the car.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of my invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that I may make changes in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim.

\Vhat I claim is In combination with a mine car having a hole in one side thereof located below the top level of the coal in the car, a flexible member looped through the h ole in a miners check and passing through the hole in the car, a Wedgeshapcd strip pivotally connected with the inner wall of the car adjacent the hole therein and around which the flexible member is twisted.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature.

MATIJA BESHENICH. 

